A red background, with a black banner and, on top of it, a red map of the world: three speech bubbles show vibrant images of a beach, a collage street scene, and a pagoda on top of a cloud-covered skyscraper.
Text reads: AustLit's 25th anniversary special: Information trail 5 of 25. Migrant Voices. Continue to explore the trail
A red background, with black text: Ten Pound Pom. Autobiography, picture book. Carole Wilkinson - author, Liz Aneli - illustrator (2017). A grey text box. Text readds: I don’t want to go to Australia. I have just started grammar school. My best friend Sally goes there too. But it looks like there could be another war and Dad has convinced Mum to go. Because we’re migrants, the voyage is costing Mum and Dad only £10 each. My brother Brian and I are travelling free. It’s a long way to Australia. What if we never come back to England?
'In the 1950s and 60s Australia welcomed thousands of British immigrants as part of the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme. Ten Pound Pom is the true story of award-winning author Carole Wilkinson’s immigration to Australia.'
In the bottom right hand corner of the text box is the book cover, showing a street scene opening up to a large passenger ship with, in the foreground, a family huddling under a black umbrella.
A red background: black text reads 'Donkeys Can't Fly on Planes: Stories of Survival from South Sudanese Children Living in Australia. Anthology, Autobiography, Picture book. A grey text box: text reads In Donkey's Can't Fly on Planes twenty-two refugee children from South Sudan, who now live in Australia, share their personal survival stories. In short, honest texts that are accompanied by mixed-media collage illustrations, the children talk about life in Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and other African countries. They share experiences of starvation and war, of family separation and death, but they also describe African customs and traditions, everyday life and happy memories.' In the top right-hand corner is the cover of the book, showing a brown donkey against green hills.
A red background. Black text reads, Ghost Cities. Ficti9on, Fantasy Novel. Siang Lu (2024). A grey text box. Text reads: 'Inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China, Ghost Cities follows multiple narratives, including one in which a young man named Xiang is fired from his job as a translator at Sydney's Chinese Consulate after it is discovered he doesn't speak a word of Chinese and has been relying entirely on Google Translate for his work.
How is his relocation to one such ghost city connected to a parallel odyssey in which an ancient Emperor creates a thousand doubles of Himself? Or where a horny mountain gains sentience? Where a chess-playing automaton hides a deadly secret? Or a tale in which every book in the known Empire is destroyed - then recreated, page by page and book by book - all in the name of love and art?' In the top right-hand corner is the cover of the book, showing a grey-toned fantastical cityscape rising vertically up the cover.
The latest 25 for 25 trail is live and, to mark Harmony Week, it's on the theme of migrant voices. Compiled by AustLit intern and CSU student Renee Mirabato, with gorgeous slides by Monica Clayton. As always, check out www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver... for the full trail!
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